Theological College at the Catholic University of America
CV NEWS FEED // Catholic University of America (CUA) has received a $1 million grant that will help it include virtue formation more extensively in its courses, benefiting students across all majors.
“This grant provides the University with a unique opportunity to more deeply integrate the learning – and living – of virtue across campus, providing all undergraduates knowledge and practices that will benefit them throughout their lives,” CUA President Dr. Peter K. Kilpatrick said in an Aug. 7 news release announcing the grant.
CUA received one of 24 Institutional Impact grants from the Educating Character Initiative (ECI), which is a part of North Carolina-based Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character.
With the grant, CUA will create an online catalog of virtue development resources available for its own staff, as well as for other universities’ staff. CUA will also use the grant to integrate virtue development more fully into its courses, in ways related to courses’ unique topics and aims.
Courses in business, for example, include virtue-focused assignments. The grant will help “formalize” the goal of virtue formation.
Dean of the Busch School of Business Andrew Abela said, “We are excited to formalize and expand our work on forming our students in virtue to the entire undergraduate population of Catholic University in a way that can then be shared further across all of higher education.”
